Word: judgemental
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...Tutorial System, as I see it is not to discuss course work, prepare for examinations, or study topics outside of the field. It is rather to help the student to discover himself and his aptitudes, overcome deficiencies in past training, coordinate and systematize his studies, develop discrimination, judgement and reasoning capacity, fill in the gaps in his general culture, arouse latent interests, discover the inter-relations of his various fields of study acquire scholarly habits of study learn how to take notes and to use libraries and source material--but primarily to learn to do independent thinking; recognize and overcome...
...social origins; but Mr. Harris forgets, or underestimates, the fact that sympathy is a product of the imagination more than of factual knowledge. Apart from this, "Case for Tragedy" is marred by a false emphasis on values extraneous to art as art, and by positive mistakes in literary judgement which are the disastrous. The temptation for a modern writer to call Date a tragic poet is considerable, but the total effect of the Divine Comedy is not tragic, and when Mr. Harris says it is he only demonstrates that unique emphasis on sociological values is fatal to appreciation of values...
FLOWERING WILDERNESS" is not only the love story of Dinny Cherrell, the "Maid-in-Waiting," and Wilfred Desert, the poet, it is also the old story of individual judgement in conflict with that of society, and clearly illustrates the saying that there are more than three sides to a triangle. There is a fourth side--the inside. The triangular situation about which Mr. Galsworthy has written such a splendid story is one of singular interest. Each of the three people concerned, Dinny--intelligent, lonely and spirited; Wilfred, a poet, proud, sensitive, rebellious of convention; Jack Muskham... to whom good form...
Although a fixed charge on athletics would undoubtedly arouse considerable opposition from those men who do not now use the athletic facilities, and also from many others because of the increase in the charge, still it must be considered in making any final judgement that the Harvard student at the present moment gets more than his money's worth for his participation ticket, and that, viewed in the broader aspect, a fixed fee would tend to benefit the system of athletics at Harvard as a whole...
...article explains, presumably for its metropolitan readers, that "Cambridge is a quiet, peaceful little town," and contrasts the judgement of Harvard's founders with those of Yale, saying they were "wise enough to build their college in the village of Newtowne, now Cambridge, instead of in the centre of the crowded city of New Haven...